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McP Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$212kEnvironment$51kEducation$49kArts & Culture$45kSocial Science$34kCrime & Legal$28kHealth$15kHuman Services$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$2,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUDICIAL WATCH INC$14,903
THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$14,903
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY FOUNDATION$5,080
THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$5,080
CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC$5,000
MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$3,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$3,000
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$3,000
ASHLAND UNIVERSITY$3,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$3,000
THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES$2,500
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY FOUNDATION$2,000
JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC$2,000
FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION$2,000
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $21k → 14%MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $4k → 9%SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC: $6k → 13%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3k → 14%CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $11k → 14%ASHLEND UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%NATIONAL LEGAL & POLICY CENTER: $6k → 4%MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $10k → 6%THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $21k → 7%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $20k → 14%MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $3k → 9%CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%NATIONAL LEGAL & POLICY CENTER: $5k → 4%MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $5k → 6%THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $20k → 7%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $15k → 14%MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $3k → 9%CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $9k → 14%ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%NATIONAL LEGAL & POLICY CENTER: $4k → 4%MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER INC: $3k → 6%THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $18k → 7%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $15k → 14%CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 14%ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%NATIONAL LEGAL & POLICY CENTER: $3k → 4%THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $15k → 7%JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5k → 14%CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 14%ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $15k → 7%JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $4k → 14%CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 14%MERCATUS CENTER INC: $10k → 7%THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $8k → 7%THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $5k → 7%MERCATUS CENTER INC: $5k → 7%THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $3k → 14%MERCATUS CENTER INC: $4k → 7%THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $3k → 14%COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUE: $5k → 14%AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORR: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$333k · 31 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
11

Total granted

$333k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+26%

Still filing today

77%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCrime & LegalEducationPublic BenefitHealthSocial ScienceOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +141%
  • CF
    CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +124%
  • NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER
    4× · 2020–2023 · $18k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • SR
    SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +11%
  • CF
    COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +8%
  • GS
    GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +30%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
4
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

—
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
The Institute for Law and Strategy

This institute, unlike many institutions concerned with law and public affairs, will not devote itself to advocacy or lobbying, to litigation, or to holding large-scale public events. rather, it will focus on collaboration with established…

Civil Rights
12
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy; the most unlike its peers is Marco Patriots Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
24/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Leadership Institute: $100,993 · Public BenefitLeadership InstituteJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $80,913 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INCMACKINAC CENTER: $10,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $2,000 · Public BenefitCAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $44,794 · Arts & CultureCAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUN…MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $19,500 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RESEARCH CENTERColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $14,956 · Arts & CultureColonial Williamsburg…FRIENDS OF HEARTHSTONE INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $3,513 · Arts & CultureASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $19,000 · EducationASHLAND U…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationPRAGER UN…GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · EducationGEORGE MA…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationHILLSDALE…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationMercatus Center Inc: $21,000 · Social ScienceMercatus …Americans for Prosperity Foundation: $9,080 · Social ScienceAmericans…Foundation for Economic Education Inc: $8,000 · Social ScienceFoundatio…THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $10,000 · OtherTHE FUND FOR A…COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $5,500 · OtherCOMPETITIVE EN…COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW: $5,000 · OtherCOMMITTEE FOR …JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC: $3,000 · OtherBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLI: $3,000 · OtherSTRATFORD AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,750 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $11,500 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIO…SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC: $6,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE RE…STATE POLICY NETWORK: $3,000 · Other+12 more: $10,552 · Other+12 moreNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER: $17,500 · Crime & LegalTHE FAIRNESS CENTER INC: $7,000 · Crime & LegalWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY: $2,000 · Crime & LegalPacific Legal Foundation: $1,500 · Crime & LegalHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $13,200 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,200 · Health+1 more: $100 · Health
Public Benefit$193,906Arts & Culture$85,763Education$38,500Social Science$38,080Other$60,302Crime & Legal$28,000Health$14,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLeadership Institute: $100,993 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $80,913 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $44,794 over 7y, 10% of budgetMercatus Center Inc: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $19,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER: $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $14,956 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $13,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $11,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmericans for Prosperity Foundation: $9,080 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAIRNESS CENTER INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HEARTHSTONE INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN STEWARDS OF LIBERTY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $513 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donors Trust IncBradley Impact Fund I…Gordon R Connor Chari…Connor FoundationHamilton Roddis Found…The Lynde and Harry B…Greater Milwaukee Fou…The Chicago Community…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…
Donors Trust IncVA19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Gordon R Connor Charitable Foundation Inc · Connor Foundation · Hamilton Roddis Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization McP Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McP Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to McP Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to McP Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home